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" What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered. "

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" A utility can handle up to 20% of production from solar and that helps the grid because it produces electricity when needed. Solar power peaks in the middle of the day and that's also when air conditioning is running and businesses are operating, so power production matches usage. "

Elon Musk

Solar

Power

Electricity

" If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago. "

" The factory is the machine that builds the machine. "

" I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself. "

" Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you'll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it's twice the efficiency of a Prius. "

" Life is too short for long-term grudges. "

" I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself. "

" I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email. "

" I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least. "

" It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now. "

" When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world. "

" There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties. "

Elon Musk

Time

Differences

" The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries. "

" Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world. "

" To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world. "

Elon Musk

Money

Better

" Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do. "

" The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced. "

" I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don't believe in climate change - they think oil will last forever. "

" What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone. "

" I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself. "

" For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it's been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I'd just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times. "

" Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment. "

" If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth. "

" I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them. "

" Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done. "

" In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate. "

" I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view. "

Elon Musk

Try

Vacation

" I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side. "

" The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable. "

" I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything. "